Stuart Lau
Biography
Publications
Stuart Lau is a Brussels-based journalist specialising in geopolitics, NATO and Indo-Pacific issues. He has worked for Politico, BBC News, the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford, and the South China Morning Post.
Xi and Putin drive Japan and NATO closer together
Tokyo wants to learn more about Russia’s tactics in preparation of potential conflicts with China, while NATO eyes Japan’s defence industry.
JD Vance lays bare Europe scepticism ahead of Greenland trip
Traditionally staunch US allies worry at a transatlantic break-down with Ukraine a further casualty.
Tsai wins US sympathy, but what about Taiwan’s voters?
Taiwan’s President portrays herself as the only reliable choice against an assertive China.
Wang Qishan and China’s charm offensive against US trade war
China’s vice-president and right-hand man to Xi Jinping is known as “China’s firefighter” and is playing a key role.
With Trump in Mind, China Realigns
America's anti-China trade policies are compelling China to realign.
“Chinese rice bowl!” Backing state-run enterprise
Xi Jinping toured northeast China to assure troubled conglomerates and push self-reliance in the face of a US trade war.
Taiwan: the lonely winter
China aims to cut Taiwan off from Japan, as well as backing from the Vatican, to ensure the island is out in the cold.
China’s trans-Himalayan tango with Nepal
After Doklam, confrontation has given way to economic contest, and perhaps the real China-India rivalry is yet to start.
China takes on Hong Kong’s press club
Hosting a fringe party leader promoting Hong Kong independence drew Beijing’s ire.
